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If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

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Books, January - February 2024

Sing for the Coming of the Longest Night - Katherine Fabian and Iona Datt Sharma

The School for Good Mothers - Jessamine Chan

A Thief in the Night - KJ Charles

The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On - Franny Choi

The Dark is Rising - Susan Cooper

Secret Life of the City: How Nature Thrives in the Urban Wild - Hanna Bjørgaas, translated by Matt Bagguley

Sunshine - Robin McKinley

A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet - Sarah Jaquette Ray

Haven - Emma Donoghue

Flawless: Lessons in Looks and Culture from the K-Beauty Capital - Elise Hu

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Dancing devils with fiddles print on cotton. April 18, 1881.

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Alas! (1890) Rhoda Broughton

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Northern Lights in Iceland (Harald Viggo Moltke, 1900)

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Darker days 👁 @tompics https://www.instagram.com/p/CA-2iEFFV6j/?igshid=13hw72o4kpeho

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Vest

c.1845

England

LACMA (Accession Number: M.87.219)

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why would you like media that is good if you can like media that is bad instead and pace around your room like an insane person thinking about What If It Was Good

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Stained glass by Constantine Woolnough, 1858 Church of St Mary, Dennington, Suffolk Photography by Simon Knott

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assorted spoons | giles newman

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Shark and octopus tiles

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‘leaves torn between the veins stitched together with pine needles hung from a tree raining, calm, cold’ izumi-mura, japan 1987 in a collaboration with nature - andy goldsworthy (1990)

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Books, November - December 2023

The Earth Path: Grounding Your Spirit in the Rhythms of Nature - Starhawk [there are a bunch of things about Starhawk's ethos that I find...let's say: misguided, over-dogmatic, verging on downright dippy...but one thing I absolutely cannot argue with is how joyfully observant her nature writing is]

Alanna: The First Adventure - Tamora Pierce [loved this book as a 13 year old; kind of hilarious to realize that WOW, they're all a bunch of terrible bullies and someone should maybe look into that? (one thing I will say about Tamora Pierce: she doesn't always do it gracefully, and sometimes she introduces brand new problems as she goes, but she does look back at her work, think, "I'd like a do over on that," and try again, which I have to respect)]

Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller - Oliver Darkshire

A Restless Truth - Freya Marske [I was ambivalent about the first book in this series; this still has some pacing problems, but overall I liked it a lot more!]

How Can I Help You - Laura Sims [an excess of serial killers, afaik, but otherwise this gets an awful lot right about the circ desk]

Hen Fever - Olivia Waite

The Door in the Hedge - Robin McKinley

In the Hand of the Goddess - Tamora Pierce [this annotation is an apology to everyone who endured my not-like-the-other-girls years]

The Enigma Game - Elizabeth Wein

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Two signal boards, early 19th century

The first, denoting signal flags for points of the compass, the second Divisional and Numerical signal flags. The reverse of the compass rose drawing indicates that this proposal was prepared by Commander James Emerton RN, based on observations undertaken on HMS Thisbe (46gun 5th Rate) whilst a Lieutenant and dated 1830.

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“The November Meteors”, from The Trouvelot Astronomical Drawings, 1882.

More of Étienne Léopold Trouvelot’s wonderful images here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-trouvelot-astronomical-drawings-1882 and if you fancy some on your walls check out the Trouvelot prints in our shop here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-trouvelot-astronomical-drawings-1882

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Books, September - October 2023

The Wife in the Attic - Rose Lerner [another take on Jane Eyre, with Judaism, queerness, and some genuinely creepy Gothic setpieces, but while I enjoyed some of the parts I'm not quite convinced by the whole]

Kraken: The Curious, Exciting, and Slightly Disturbing Science of Squid - Wendy Williams

The Spare Man - Mary Robinette Kowal